Minister Plasterk of the Interior is true to the American embassy to ask if it is true that the NSA in the past, the Netherlands has spied. The government calls it “not acceptable” if the NSA procedures for information in the Netherlands has collected.
The minister may not confirm that the Netherlands in the past target of the NSA. “The ministry of the INTERIOR and kingdom relations will contact the American embassy to ask whether they, the media coverage can confirm,” writes the minister to the Second Chamber.
Plasterk responding to revelations of the NRC last weekend; the newspaper wrote that the NSA between 1946 and 1968 afluisterde in the Netherlands. The size is not known, and it is also not clear what happens after that period of time happened. Author Matthew Aid, who specializes in the NSA and intelligence agencies, suggested that much earlier it was known that the NSA in the Netherlands afluisterde.
According to Plasterk, the NSA reported earlier that the Netherlands does not target. If countries information want to collect in the Netherlands, they should according to the minister, to submit a request to the AIVD or the MIVD. “The request is within the framework of the Dutch law reviewed and possibly implemented. The government considers any action outside of those legal frameworks is not acceptable.”
About the message the NSA to 50,000 networks with malware has infected, let the minister is not: “It is not customary that services inform each other of their own sources and methods. To the extent that in the framework of the international cooperation fellow services their practices to the AIVD or the MIVD have known, about this, in public no announcements made.”